That’s one on us lol That’s another thing. If you went anywhere you had to hitch the wagon plus take care of horses.
I never asked some questions to the ones born in the late 1800s about that. I wondered where they got the ice and what they did of no ice just how did they salt the food or whatever. Do you know?
One lady must have rode a buggy a lot because her shoulders had effects from
it in her elder years.
I don’t remember exactly what the milk man drove I think it was a truck and milk in back he delivered in glass bottles we ” kids” had to be careful not to break. I think the bread and donut was all in one kind mad like a van that opened in the back. My grandma and great aunts didn’t use them they made there own pastries like cream puffs and eclairs better than the donuts.
My aunt great aunt told me she was gonna ” learn” me how to make someday. One of my great aunts had her own cows then but in farm land don’t think there was deliveries. Some though I should of been born in that era because I was so stuck on it all the time wanting to know how it was all the time.
It was funny I saw a picture of a old washer on FB with the rollers and all the millennial gen had no clue what it was. My oldest daughter made a “guess” it was a washer.

But I remember milk , bread and ice being delivered by horse drawn wagons . The delivery man could hop off with a ‘hod’ of milk or bread , and make several deliveries on both sides of the street , then whistle , and the horse would bring the wagon to him . Occasionally there would be a horse with a mind of its own that would start getting ahead of the driver . In that case the driver would drop a large weight – about a foot in diameter and about 6 inches thick onto the pavement , attached to the wagon with a long leather strap . That was an anchor for the horse .
When I was about 4 or 5 , the electrical grid in town was converted from 25 Hz to the current standard 60 Hz , so there was about a two year period when your family fridge became an ice box until the utility company could change out the compressor motors for everyone . The ice man would make deliveries from another horse drawn wagon every other day , leaving a block of ice about the size of a 1 foot by 1 foot by 1 foot cube .
The bread wagon and the milk wagon were enclosed , with windows front and sides , with a sliding door on both sides , closed in winter , open in summer . The ice wagon was just a farm wagon with low sides , and the ice covered with a tarp to retard melting in summer , and I suppose , deter theft by delinquents in some neighborhoods .

Simply a Matter of Time when the Gold Bull goes on Rampage

A read of the gold charts is indicating that a breakout and new bull market are simply a matter of time, says technical analyst Clive Maund.

Gold continues to prepare to break out of its giant Head-and-Shoulders bottom pattern. As we can see on its 8-year chart below, this base pattern has been developing for getting on for five years now, so it has major implications. Upside volume has been building for a long time, driving volume indicators higher, a sign that a breakout and new bull market are simply a matter of time, and not much at that now.

There has been much grumbling and muttering within the gold community about how “The Cartel” and the Comex etc are holding the gold price in restraint by means of naked short selling, and hitting the market with supply when trading is thin during public holidays and overnight and so on, but the fact of the matter is that the reason why the Precious Metals sector has taken a back seat for years now is that there have been hotter games in town, like Biotech, Bitcoin, Cannabis, the FANGS, Tech generally, etc. and endless quantities of cheap money to bid them up into the stratosphere. So that is where the action has been. However, to everything its season and all that is coming to an end now, and the recent plunge in the stock market was a “shot across the bows” to all who would heed it, indicating that a new bear market is starting, but don’t go telling that to the buy the dip crowd. FOR THE REST GO TO THIS LINK–TIA

In the Curling. Now USA up against another team for the gold or silver. Canada usually wins in Curling but not this time. Never saw that game before nor understand how the points are made but it was interesting and fun to watch.

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — The armed officer on duty at the Florida school where a shooter killed 17 people never went inside to engage the gunman and has been placed under investigation, officials announced Thursday.

I’m sorry I haven’t had time to listen to your video yet and am not denying that kids were killed, but what makes the whole thing suspect is instant response from the students and leaders like Hogg and others – they were just too prepared to come out with the “must remove guns” narrative and instantaneous protests etc. It all sounds like a setup from the top down with useful idiots from academia ready to pounce on Trump and the NRA.

I don’t trust anything coming out of the Gov’t because there is always an agenda.

Yes I remember all those things from the 50s. I think it was 5 dollars a doctors visit. Remember the milk man and donut and bread man and of course most important the ice cream man. Only one left you see infrequently is the ice cream man. The prices have signifantly changed since then. I remember we were outside more than kids now or they’d find something for us to do which we had things to do anyways. I was ironing my own cloths at 7 where everything in those days had to be ironed. Another thing you don’t need to do much anymore as anyone our age knows pure cotton is trouble. Baby boomers were seen as a job maker then.
Then came along a Gov acting like spoiled kids like they got the keys to daddy’s safe deposit squandering all the weatlh of the generations before.
There should be some trade but not a trade deficit we seem to generously give to everyone or should I say Gov does. They even stole from our SS. There a bunch of crooked bums.

Good points. Also, Trump Is Right About No More insane asylums. When we were kids there was a big field behind our house. On the other side of the field a road with a big building known by us kids as “The Nut House”. No air conditioners back then, and we could occasionally hear some nut job singing Opera music.

They all closed down as our country got poorer. We used to get garbage picked up in the back yard. No need to drag it out front. Milk delivered to the front porch. Bread delivered, Dugan’s I think it was called. Diaper service. There was a guy with truck that used to drive buy if we needed knife sharpening. Another guy delivered eggs.

Brainless and lucrative entry level jobs were the norm. Doctors used to make house calls, but they were highly educated. $5 a visit I think it cost my father. I think all Americans should wake up, and be disgusted every time they see a product that does not have “Made In USA” stamped on it.

The $20 trillion national debt? That’s what we spent on imports. There would no debt, plus an account surplus in the US treasury, lower taxes, more asylums, less crime, more fun, if we exported MORE than we import.

Our country never had proper protective leadership. So that means our leadership was foreign, or European. Protecting themselves. Why protect us? Everything after 1913 was European and big business influence. For example stupid war I and stupid war II was not our problem. It was THEIR problem, and they sucked us into them. They only care about themselves.

The only good years 1945 to 1975 I’m CERTAIN was not intended, an accident.

Yes all about them prior hippies with too much time on their hands and draft dodgers turned yippie trying to mould our kids to submit to their plans that do not enclude them. No more factory jobs that baby boomer politics destroyed it so go to school that baby boomer caused the prices to be astronomical ” with everything else” to jobs that don’t exist or outsourced. They let this happen.
I remember the greatest generation. My eyes were never limited to the bigger world out there and met a lot of them as a teen starting out first as a nurses aid plus listened to my grandparents and other elders. Too much time on their hands of the 60 s compaired to them. They had to make their own bread, many butchered their own meat or hunted too, to have a bath you heated water you just didn’t turn a faucet. They were independent as long as they were able didn’t wine and complain all the time. There were bonds with this as everyone had their chores. Bonds with family and communities. They didn’t watch TV much or some none at all. Maybe the news, football or Lawerence Welk for some of them. Then came the nuclear family mom dad kids. The elder were starting to be put in homes because mom now working. Not all but it was starting. Parents weren’t there for their kids were starting. The bonds that held family’s and communities together including a Church were starting to go by the wayside. With the baby boomers it wasn’t even enough for them nor to wait for the kids to get older before mom worked, no get out there pay taxes. Then they complain they’re not having as much kids?
Perhaps with the way things are they will go back to that with closer family’s because it may be the only way they can survive financially. I don’t think we as humans were meant to be alone anyways.

Good points you added goldilocks. Yes, Gov and Hollywood makes bad parents because they are both BIG business, and business cares only about themselves, greed and profits etc. Don’t forget about the cultural engineers, that mold and shape everyone. Square pegs into round holes.

Every signal that I have and trust has turned negative for Gold and the miners. We had a crash for 2 weeks and then a rebound that lasted for only 4 days. The rebound made a lower high. Deep trouble ahead for perhaps the next month. Just my 2 cents.

Not only that. People in the 60 s stopped taking their kids to church and were against anything from the social and God fearing past. They stopped being envolved with the kids a lot of men thought they could run around do what they want smoke pot chill with no responsibility or ties, and the TV with sleezy shows that degrade women, or with violence with no plot, heroizing bad guys, and now violent video games became their babysitters now bad babysitters while schools teaching white guilt promoting minority hate and in some schools white kids trying to act like a thug or something theyre not ” at first” so they can get along. Gov and Hollywood makes bad parents and of late politics bad examples.
Did you hear the latest on Pelosi. We don’t need a fence at the border we need to mow our lawns instead. When we do the illegals will pop out. They know they don’t have a legitimate reason for not having one.

The Howdy Doody Show, Superman, Roy Rogers Show, Three Stooges, Ozzie and Harriet, Andy Griffith of Mayberry, Leave it to Beaver, Dennis the Menace, Father Knows Best, I Love Lucy, The Honey Mooners, Mickey Mouse Club, The Rifle Man, The Lone Ranger, Lassie, and American Bandstand.

Even the old cowboy westerns always showed the bad guy getting killed by the good guy. And when the bad guy got killed, you could see is was phony, staged. He’d hold his belly and then fall off the roof or porch etc.

The “problem” with all those shows was everybody was European white. No “diversity”, so the smart asses decided to change everything, more politically correct, sex drugs and alcohol with violence, and now look at what the ass holes created. Add globalization and lower wages for unskilled labor leads to hopelessness and depression leading suicide and or mass shootings.

By the way, after the Valentines Murders they banned the Thomson machine guns from the general public. History is trying to repeat. At least Capone only fought other gangsters not the regular citizens and even helped some of them. This was a messed up in the head kid and wonder if vaccines had something to do it because he had a autism spectrum of some sort it is said in media anyways. Not that autism is going to spawn murders but can cause behavior problems especially if their normal routine is disrupted like the case with his mother dying.

Those kids are too young to know about a Saint Valentines Massacre that happened on the 1920s.
It was interesting he picked that day.
That comment by that one kid shows how they are brainwashing our kids when they said he was wearing a Trump hat.
Never mind teachers being involved in the terrorist group ANTIFA, the harassment of Trump supporting students, the destruction on Berkeley, the teachers shooting a picture of Trump in class are all by Democrats. Then they worry about violence in school? Really. They are instigating it then trying to blame it on the NRA.
The NRA doesn’t have anything to do about all this or the multisystem failure that allowed Cruz to have guns and violence the Demos they themselves promote. He was also looking on how to make a bomb so if he didn’t have any guns he would of tried that instead.
Perhaps we should tag the Democratic Party of being a terrorist group.

A unique bacteria that produces gold as a byproduct of ingesting toxic metals may be key to the future refinement of the precious mineral, according to new research.

The study published in the journal Mettalomics claims to solve the mystery of how the metal-gobbling bacterium, Cupriavidus metallidurans, can consume copper and gold without poisoning itself.

Previous research established that the rod-shaped bacteria ingested toxic gold compounds, converted them into the element’s metallic form and then pooped out gold nuggets. What baffled scientists was how it did this without causing any harm to the organism itself.